High-temperature metamorphism during extreme thinning of the continental crust: a reappraisal of the North Pyrenean passive paleomargin
An increasing number of field examples in mountain belts show that the formation of passive margins during extreme continent thinning may occur under conditions of high to very high thermal gradient beneath a thin cover of syn-rift sediments. Orogenic belts resulting from the tectonic inversion of d...
Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2015-06-01
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Series: | Solid Earth |
Online Access: | http://www.solid-earth.net/6/643/2015/se-6-643-2015.pdf |